1. How online social support enhances individual resilience in the public health crisis: Testing a dual-process serial mediation model.
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He, Zhonglei and Chen, Meng
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SOCIAL media , *PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience , *SOCIAL capital , *HEALTH , *ONLINE social networks , *INFORMATION resources , *CRISIS intervention (Mental health services) , *SURVEYS , *COLLECTIVE efficacy , *TRUST , *SOCIAL support , *PRACTICAL politics , *FACTOR analysis , *COVID-19 pandemic - Abstract
Under the background of the COVID-19 pandemic, our paper attempts to advance a dual-process model from online social support to individual resilience via diverse social capital (bonding and bridging) and political beliefs (political efficacy, political trust and city identification). Drawing on a survey of 446 residents in Shanghai, China, the findings indicate that neither informational nor emotional social support directly affects individual resilience, but indirectly influences it through different pathways. Specifically, bridging social capital mediates informational social support and individual resilience, but bonding social capital might not follow a similar path. Notably, political efficacy and political trust are involved in the above mediation between informational social support and individual resilience. Besides, the serial mediation effect of emotional social support on individual resilience via bonding social capital and then city identification or political trust is also significant. Our findings are expected to reveal the mechanism of resilience construction and prepare for the future public health crisis. • Neither informational nor emotional social support directly predicts individual resilience in China during the COVID-19. • Bridging social capital mediates the relationship between informational support and resilience. • Political trust explains the mechanism from social support to resilience via both bonding and bridging social capital. • Political efficacy acts in the sequential mediation of informational support, bridging social capital, and resilience. • City identification acts as the pathway connecting emotional support, bonding social capital, and resilience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2024
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